Sentence examples for of the straitjacket from inspiring English sources

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On the screen, Houdini twisted, writhed and popped free of the straitjacket.

Whether he will be the man to break out of the straitjacket, only time will tell.

What if Matt had not managed to get out of the straitjacket in time?

In the long term, there is no way out of the straitjacket applied by the Bush administration's policies.

Men have a pressing task too: to break out of the straitjacket that lad culture has locked us into.

Fiscal policy has also tightened slightly because of the straitjacket imposed by the stability pact, which is forcing Germany to increase taxes in the midst of recession.

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But after years of having to conform to the norms of Arkansas, years of wearing the straitjacket of first lady, Mrs. Clinton now has a more Democratic, more liberal, more worldly New York power base.

Mr. Steadman responded to Mr. Levy's request but apparently could not accommodate himself to the straitjacket of reality.

Aid carries with it the poison pill of conditionality that forces the opening of the markets to privatisation of state assets, and the straitjacket of monetarist policies.

"The birth defect of the euro was to put very different cultures of economic activity in the straitjacket of a single currency," a commentator, Jan Fleischhauer, wrote in the German weekly Der Spiegel after an Italian cruise ship ran aground last month.

Starched tablecloths are disappearing – gone already from the dining rooms of Tom Aikens and Simon Rogan – along with the straitjacket of bowtie and DJ.

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